On 07/03/2011 02:26 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > JD wrote: > >>> Machine one..johan 1000:1000 >>> Machine two ..johan 500:500 > This is the problem I had with Debian and friends. > > Fedora starts users at 500, while Debian&c uses 1000. So, if you use the same > username on both, you now have the same user with both 500 and 1000 uid. When > you log back into fedora (at least that is what happened to me), my stuff is > now changed to user 500, or was it 501. It was a real mess! And the problem > with Debian systems is that I could not find a way to get users to start at > 500, so as to be the same as Fedora. It was a mess, so I decided no longer to > mount user data to non-Fodora systems. > I think you have exposed a very interesting problem. It means that if, for example, /home was created on separate partition on a fedora machine, and you decide to share that home mount point with other linux/es /, (many people have multiple versions of linux installed on same machine), then there will be this incompatibility as far as uid's and gid's are concerned.
I wonder why the distros do not agree to starting with the same uid/gid number for first user account. Perhaps it is the drive to be different :) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
